Your free 5TB of data storage

You can buy more data storage capacity if you need it, and you must include the cost of this in your research grant proposals.

Costs of additional data storage

The current cost (valid from 1 Feb 2024) for storing data above the 5TB free allocation in the RDSF is £95.22 per TB per year. This is a TRAC (Transparent Approach to Costing) rate and should be added to grant proposals for the years a research grant will be active.

You must add research storage cost in Worktribe for your future grants, and you must also charge the cost from your current grants.

The University is aware that there is usually a commitment to safely retain data after the lifetime of the grant which cannot (as of June 2024) be included in these costs. 

The University will review the data storage cost annually as part of the TRAC facility costing process.

How to buy additional data storage

If you are a data steward or deputy data steward and wish to buy additional research data storage for an existing RDSF project, please email rdsf-help@bristol.ac.uk with details of the extra storage you require, please include the RDSF project name, and the approximate start and end dates of your research project.

You can also request additional RDSF data storage via the IT service desk system Halo. 

How to add the cost in Worktribe

The ‘Add research facility’ guide within Worktribe explains how you add a facility cost to your research budget

Get answers to your questions

Please email grp-acrc-facilitators@groups.bristol.ac.uk and your finance costing specialist if you have costings questions for grant applications and your post-award specialist if you need to purchase RDSF storage.